What do you need to charge per hour?

Work backward from the income you want. We'll show the real hourly rate your craft business has to clear — before and after materials.

Income goal (take-home, per year)

Weeks you work / year

Allow for time off

Hours / week on the craft

hrs

Making + markets + admin

Materials & fees

% of revenue

Roughly what each sale costs you to produce + sell

44 weeks × 30 hrs = 1,320 working hours a year.

You need to bring in

$46.62/hr

in sales, every working hour, to clear your goal after materials.

Use the revenue-per-hour number to sanity-check booth fees: if a 6-hour show can’t plausibly sell $279.72, it’s working against your goal.

Now price every show against it

A Showfest account logs each market's real hourly wage, so you can see at a glance which shows clear your number — and which don't.